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Inspector Lee Lyons, of Sussex Police, is alleged to have made a series of calls and sent a number of text messages from his police BlackBerry

Исследователи из Института экологической медицины (ИММ) Каролинского института доказали, что воздействие сильного шума в период беременности у женщин может привести к нарушению слуха у ребенка.

Запад собирается признать халифат партнером в сирийском урегулировании?

The worst political punditry is forever consistent: It treats the act of electing those who will govern our nation as a sports competition. There is no significance attached to who wins or loses, or word of what the repercussions of that might be. Candidates are rated not based on whether they tell truth or lies, but whether the audience liked the performance. The narrative is key, where the narrative is the pundit's explanation of how every move and twitch of the race does or does not play into... Читать дальше...

淡马锡和GIC投资的主要是重要经济领域，从消费复苏的趋势中获益。随着经济复苏，人们开始增加消费，将推动消费领域、房地产、商场、保健、能源等。

腾飞房地产投资信托（AREIT）将以4亿2000万元，从它占股一半的合资公司Ascendas Frasers手中，买下商业园房地产One@Changi City。

本地私宅租金市场继续走软，11月份私宅租金比之前一个月减少1.1％。这是非有地私宅租金连续10个月下滑，跌幅也是过去九个月来最大。

В интервью австрийскому Motorsport Magazin чемпион 1997 года Жак Вильнёв подвёл итоги минувшего сезона Формулы 1

Fox has renewed thriller “Wayward Pines” for Season 2, Variety has learned. 10 new episodes are slated for a summer 2016 debut. Series creator and showrunner Chad Hodge will not return for the second season, though exec producer M. Night Shyamalan is still on board. Shyamalan will serve as an exec producer with Donald De Line, Ashwin Rajan,... Read more »

SCOTUS conservatives go negative on affirmative action; India and Pakistan slightly reduce odds of the world blowing itself up; who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

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Селфи с монахами Ангкор-Вата, брокколи и корнишоны из Турции, билеты РЖД по старым тарифам и другие вещи, недоступные в 2016-м

История с девушкой-безбилетницей, покинувшей закрытый троллейбус через окно, получила свое продолжение.

With little fanfare this fall, the New York developer who had planned to build an Islamic community center north of the World Trade Center announced that he would instead use the site for a 70-story tower of luxury condos. “The importance of the defeat of the Ground Zero Mosque cannot be overstated,” Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative wrote on the Breitbart website in September. The Ground Zero Mosque became a watershed issue in our effort to raise awareness of... Читать дальше...

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Traditional retailers have become much more adept at using technology to push back against online-only e-commerce sites. 

Beacons are among the most important new mobile technologies helping real-world merchants win back sales. These low-cost devices communicate with smartphone apps indoors through a Bluetooth signal. Last year saw tons of retailers testing beacons, including Macy's and Target. This year, hundreds of big retail chains are turning those devices on and... Читать дальше...

Европейский Союз планирует в скором времени отменить визовый режим для граждан Украины и Грузии, пишет немецкая газета Die Welt в среду, 9 декабря.

Более 120 представителей малого и среднего бизнеса собрала деловая конференция с участием представителей бизнеса, банковского сектора и государственных органов во Владивостоке.

Определены все 16 команд, которые примут участие в 1/8 финала Лиги чемпионов, сообщает официальный сайт Союза европейских футбольных ассоциаций (УЕФА).

Fusion is always just 30 years away, but we seem to be actually making some progress after decades of building huge superconducting magnets that will probably be impractical for producing net energy. We've seen Lockheed Martin and a bunch of fusion energy startups claiming to be able to control a fusion reaction in less than 30 years, but economically generating energy is still a distant milestone.

• Are tokamak designs for fusion reactors a dead-end technology for ever producing energy?... Читать дальше...

Фонд развития гражданского общества (ФоРГО) опубликовал 11-й рейтинг эффективности губернаторов России.Губернатор Хабаровского края вошел в первую группу глав субъектов с очень высоким рейтингом (свыше 75 баллов). В этой группе Вячеслав Шпорт поднялся на две позиции и занял 10-е место. Его результат составил 89 баллов из 100 возможных.

Burt Reynolds, the very same actor who once slapped a CBS producer on a red carpet because the producer asked him to say a little bit about the movie he was promoting, said that Charlie Sheen got what he deserved when he contracted HIV.

Women empowerment? That only seems to be a slo gan for the three major parties of the state, as none of them is fielding any women for the December 27 elections to 25 legislative council seats from local authorities constituencies.